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Revision DOT POINT Podcasts - VCE Psychology Unit 3

AOS 2 Memory

Dot Point #1:

Mechanism of memory function:

• role of neuron in memory formation informed by the work of E. Richard Kandel
• roles of hippocampus and temporal lobe
• consolidation theory

• memory decline over the lifespan
• amnesia resulting from brain trauma and neurodegenerative diseases including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dot Point #2:

• Atkinson-Shiffrin’s multi-store model of memory including maintenance and elaborative rehearsal, serial position effect and chunking

• Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch’s model of working memory: central executive, phonological loop, visuo-spatial sketchpad, episodic buffer

• levels of processing as informed by Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart - part of first podcast (U3AOS2dotpoint2a-1 3)
• organisation of long-term memory including declarative and episodic memory, and semantic network theory

Dot Point #3:

Strengths and limitations of psychological theories of forgetting:

• retrieval failure theory including tip-of-the tongue phenomenon
• interference theory
• motivated forgetting as informed by the work of Sigmund Freud including repression and suppression
• decay theory

Dot Point #4:

Manipulation and improvement of memory:

• forgetting curve as informed by the work of Hermann Ebbinghaus
• measures of retention including the relative sensitivity of recall, recognition and relearning
• use of context dependent cues and state dependent cues

• mnemonic devices including acronyms, acrostics, peg-word method, narrative chaining and method of loci

• effect of misleading questions on eye-witness testimonies including the reconstructive nature of memory informed by the work of Elizabeth Loftus

• research methods and ethical principles associated with the study of memory, as outlined in the

introduction to the unit.

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